Sebastian Junger
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2 series
first heard Jul 2024
last heard 13 Jun
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five right you're an eye doctor you're a dentist you're a construction it's just how it works so the idea that like oh i'm just an individual and i don't need anything from anyone and so stay away from me and i don't want to pay any taxes whatsoever and blah blah blah like it's you know it's a fantasy right human society has never worked that way and you can go to you know there are some tribal societies current day that
I thought to represent very closely what our evolutionary origins are.
And, you know, the idea in those, just the Hadza in East Africa, for example, they're very well studied peoples.
You know, they would just say it's absolutely absurd.
Like the idea that you could survive on your own or would want to.
Like, and so in America, there's this myth of individuality, but actually all these people, all these sort of cowboys that think they're like these rugged individuals are enormously independent on the supply chain and the government that oversees it.
So it's a fantasy, right?
It's a kind of immature fantasy.
I mean, you know, I'm not a political expert, but just as a citizen of this country, one of the things that is odd in both the left and the right, I vote mostly Democratic, okay, but I'm enormously frustrated, even outraged by the left,
occasionally terrified by the right and very disappointed in them as well.
So I'm sort of nicely in the middle and I have friends on both sides.
Perfect guest for our show because that's how we feel too.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I have good friends on both sides, right?
But one of the things that's quite odd is the, particularly on the right wing, this sort of insistence on individuality, but as you say, also on an insistence that
Conservatives are the tribe that's right about things, and the left are the sort of forces of, you know, evil and dissolution that have to be fought against.
And so they're both being hyper-individualistic, but also acting collectively as a tribe in ways that I think are kind of frightening.
Like January 6th was terrifying, right?
The left has their own bullshit, right?
I mean, you know, they would never organize January 6th, right?
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